30 August 2008

It’s so remorseful and apologetic to bear seeing UMNO and BN being ostracized to this extent at Permatang Pauh on the 26th August by-election.

The humiliation is too excruciating and God knows what would happen next as UMNO is still in denial to the actuality that the people are just unbending to reject the ruling party.

Paralleling to UMNO’s serious injury is the uncomforting statements by the component parties which indicated their displeasure towards us and this can drive us crazy.

The component is blaming us and the sense of insecurity expressed by Muhyiddin Yassin should be taken seriously by everybody and everyone in UMNO irrespective whether one holds positions in the party.

I am convinced that Muhyiddin has the clue as to what is going to happen to UMNO if changes do not happen in UMNO.

To simplistic mind of the young group of UMNO members they don’t compute how significant it is to survive UMNO as it has close correlation to the survival of their race and religion as well as to their generations.

If Muhyiddin is able to comprehend and compute the seriousness of the disease faced by UMNO he should put his personal interest behind him and come forward to find solutions with few other leaders who have the influence to change.

We must resign to the fact that the disease UMNO is facing right now is at a terminal stage.

Let me tell everyone, and that includes Muhyiddin; whoever is brave to go through this rough political storm will be the leader for the very near future.

It wouldn’t take a long time from now on, as God would only bequeath its blessing to someone who is brave enough to assist Tengku Razaleigh in weathering the storm.

UMNO needs a real fighter with truthful personality. UMNO needs a few brave leaders to fight head on with leaders who vandalize the party.

Rakyat is looking at us at close-up distance and they can see very clearly to what we do; bad or good.

The rakyat want security; they are in dire need to be ruled by sincere and magnanimous leaders and strong government.

They want leaders with clean image with no moral issues running against them.

Tan Sri Muhyiddin! Just stop wailing! Buck up and come with us to change UMNO back to preeminent status which we used to enjoy with.

We have lost humiliatingly in the Permatang Pauh by election; now with even bigger majority of 15,671 votes…it’s grievous.

This by-election was the mother of elections as it will chart a new political landscape of the country and has proved a lot of idiosyncrasies of current political behavior of the people and the nation.

The result was in fact unsurprising as our BN and UMNO leaders were outpaced by the opposition party in all turfs right from day one as BN was so focused on personal issues and nothing was talked about other pressing issues pertaining to the rakyat.

The rakyat is again sending strong message that they are giving vote of no confidence to the Prime Minister and his deputy who was the commander in charge of the by-election.

Despite of unrelenting efforts by the ruling party to ridicule Anwar the voters still say “Fuck off” to our party and leaders without qualm.

What do we learn out of this upsetting defeat? Surely we learn at least little stuff of politics with this expensive lesson.

At the very least Najib who headed the by-election campaign has to admit that he has failed wretchedly as how he had failed miserably in the last General Election.

Through this by election, Najib earned disrespect, mockery and circumvention of support from the very own UMNO members in Permatang Pauh as well as from the neighboring constituencies.

They just abhorred the presence of Najib in the election as he himself was negatively perceived by the people with too many personal issues running against him.

He should now resign as a matter of principle as he is totally rejected and he is of no significance to the eyes of the people anymore…in fact he is a yoke to the party.

He should withdraw himself from all responsibilities in the party and government as the spirit of democracy warrants him to do so.

He should discuss seriously with Abdullah to resign together and leave everything to us and the rest of the party members to decide on their successors.

They shouldn’t be taking too much time to arrive at this decision as the matter is too serious that needs instantaneous attention from Abdullah and Najib.

The people are waiting anxiously for their retirements and they have signaled the top leadership to do so through the last General Election and the just wrapped up by-election in Permatang Pauh.

Staying put at their respective positions would eventually destroy UMNO and the government, and we do not want to be the grieving recipients to their misadventures any longer.

I am no supporter of Anwar, and never will be, but Anwar’s victory in Permatang Pauh is a very sharp and perfect yardstick to gauge the acceptability of BN by the general voting public.

Anwar wouldn’t be this important if their nauseating feelings towards the leadership and the government were addressed fittingly.

Through and through our leaders were harping only on sodomy issues and were hiding behind Saiful’s ass, and that created and built up massive hatred towards BN.

Let us not discuss on the reasons of the defeat; it has been done too extensively.

UMNO must change, the current leaders must sacrifice, the members must look at suitable angle of struggles and it has to be done without wasting much time anymore.

Abdullah, Najib and the rest of the present line-up must face UMNO members and just surrender and admit mistakes they have committed.

They must allow somebody else to lead, and that is the only choice available to save the party from going through total oblivion.

We are still fortunate that we have a leader like Tengku Razaleigh who has been sidelined by his political competitors for 3 decades and that he is still around to mend the fences from further annihilation.

What is needed is just an understanding of the grassroot members and the willingness of the leaders at all levels to accept this very simple fact that the party needs a new environment of politics…and Tengku Razaleigh is the only life line available.

17 August 2008

I am like many other Malaysians of all races, is in grave concern about the leadership crisis we are now facing, which certainly gambles our very own future.

This great nation has been going through long history of existence with trustworthy leadership and government until recently when we feel that there exist huge leadership vacuities and this is the worst political ill will this country has ever experienced.

We somehow feel there are some unseen and invincible current that moves towards foreseeable destructions of identity of the nation and her population.

We can unmistakably see and feel that we are not anymore in the country we used to take pleasure living in.

The crisis of confidence are as obtrusive as such we believe that everything the government does is fallacious and subsequently add on to the currently unbearable feelings towards the leadership and the government as a whole.

Malaysians are just unable to appreciate happenings around them and find themselves at odd with everything that surrounds them.

Politicians are morally doomed and can do almost anything, however heinous it can be just for the sake of uncharacteristic political culture of the day.

The most recent happening was when the Quran was debased as a lying detector, when Saiful went to the mosque to swear that he was sodomized by Anwar just a day before the nomination of Permatang Pauh by-election.

I am no saint but I know that was done with bad tastes and intent…it was purely and crudely a political move.

One can even take his own ass for political expediency and worst still it was for the advantage of another desperate politician who is trying to survive his political existence.

I am not protecting anyone who commits this heinous act of sodomy but I am against the ill-intended action of Saiful as he was with somebody high-ups before going to the police to make a report on the sodomy.

His action must be driven by a predictable politician who is in dire need to see Anwar flops politically.

The police have ceased to be an agency to protect the safety of the people as they are just a little bit soiled than the criminals they apprehend.

The crime rate is rising to an appalling state and shamelessly our leaders are claiming that this is the safest nation that one can live in.

The police and the Minister in charge have not given the public the reasons as to why there are too numerous murder cases unsolved, and many robbers were unable to be apprehended.

The underworld seems to rule the nation, while the police seem to be more focus on attending to the political activities of the oppositions.

The racial unity is at the lowest ebb under the current leadership and there are parties who dare enough to question of Malay privileges provided by the constitution which has been agreed between races.

Corruption is already in the blood system of politicians and the government implementers, and only God knows how these inept leaders are going to mitigate this severe problem.

Corruptors are apprehended and charged selectively, as some who commit that offence are guarded by the Official Secret Act (OSA).

Corrupt leaders with huge followers are put at ransom, and forced to support weak and shoddy top leader in the wake of party election in December.

Everything is going to go bust and the current leaders are still dreaming and do nothing of consequence to address all these serious hiccups the nation is facing.

Abdullah and Najib don’t even realize that we are all in danger and the total system of workings in the government is in jeopardy.

What do ordinary Malaysians like us do to mitigate these unwarranted problems? Are we doing enough to help? Do we really realize that our current leaders are not doing anything to save us and the nation?

Let us all once and for all wake up and change these leaders. The efforts should come from everybody and from all quarters.

It should come from all component parties, oppositions and Ngo’s. The Malay rulers are not spared from these noble duties as well.

Let us all Malaysian work towards change and subsequently live happily ever after.

We have missed life in solace far too long, with prudent and magnanimous leaders like we used to enjoy decades ago. After all we still have at least one leader with courage to offer his irrefutable self as an alternative to the current moronic set.

08 August 2008

Our leadership is perennially in trouble, and if there is no permanent solution to these endless tribulations as fast, our nation is going to be doomed.

I don’t believe we are destined to be in this political situation. The situation was self-inflicted by dishonest, dubious and higgledy-piggledy leaders.

I, for once, and until today never waived my stand and believe that this quandary was not unexpected to happen.

I sniffed the advent to these chaotic and disastrous politics way back in the late 70’s and I am proud to see that what I have been forecasting has become the order for these days.

There had to be a cause to the cause of us facing this unkind political ambience….just know a bit of history, it will help one to decisively make a proper stand on the leadership issues of today.

The new and uncharacteristic culture of UMNO set in since the era after Hussein Onn and we now became the grieving recipients to it.

There is no way that the controversial Najib can be a quantifiable successor to the dubious Abdullah, and so do with Muhyiddin and all the top brass UMNO leaders.

The once ‘looked upon’ Muhyiddin has ceased to qualify as the successor as he now bows to the current anomalous top leadership after months of cry for the leadership change….people have now perceived him as unimpressive leader.

Muhyiddin shamelessly is now returning to the fold of Abdullah and Najib and he is swallowing his own noisy words without qualms and he may be alone after this, like an injured dog licking its own wound.

I think he wants to save his position as a Minister, hoping that the rumors of his impending sacking from the cabinet won’t finally happen….as Cabinet position is his ultimate.

So I deduce we should not rest our hope in Muhyiddin and just bid him goodbye, as he has crashed even before taking off.

Now Muhyiddin has to struggle to maintain his VP post of the party, as there are many new aspirants for that position, most of whom are the loveable candidates for Abdullah.

So, whom do we think should offer the alternative leader other than Tengku Razaleigh?

There is none! It is only Tengku Razaleigh who has the standing to meet head-on with the disparaging and perennial hiccups in UMNO, BN and the nation as a whole.

To members who have a basic knowledge of UMNO’s history would be thankful to god that this man (TR) is still alive and kicking, and we are blessed for having him to be the savior of the nation from further obliteration.

He has the experience and has a very high personal profile nationally and internationally that makes him an automatic alternative leader for the country.

What all of us should come to term is that Abdullah has got to go and just live in repentance with his family members who are already in the high bracket economic standing.

No matter what, the responsibility of returning the nation to the preeminent standing is in our account.

I am just starting to do things which I habitually do everyday after more than a week in grief.

Eight days have gone since my mother’s demise and I was not really in my usual self, as the feel of losing her is extremely painful.

Until this morning, I was still receiving condolence messages from friends everywhere, local and abroad and all gave me strong words of encouragement for me to learn how to live without a mother.

After all I am used to live without a father since my age of 14.

I now admit that losing our love ones is very normal and one has to accept it as a simple fact of life.

Through death one may lose their loves ones like mother, father, wives and children or anybody and no one is spared from those experiences in life.

The only thing that I find it tough to forget is my mum’s extra endurance in bringing us all up single-handedly until all six of us became adults.

She labored herself at length as though there were no more tomorrow merely to ensure that I and all my siblings could live like other children with complete parents.

Now that she is gone, I am not sure whether I had done enough to return her mammoth deeds and sacrifices for us.

Few of my friends reminded me that there is no way that a son can repay all his mother’s sacrifices and no mother wants to make any claim for what she has done for their children…and that is why we call them mother.

The amount of sacrifices of any mother is immeasurably huge and the only way to repay a mother is the demonstrations of an unremitting, unrelenting and inexorable love for her throughout her life.

I hope and pray that I have not done anything to her displeasure while she was living.

I accept the opinion of my close friends that if I really want to express my infinite love for her, I just need to heed all her advice and do what she loved me to do.

That’s all for today and I shall be back to regular writing in just days from now…hopefully.

01 August 2008

It has been 3 days since I lost my mother whom I loved dearly, and since then this is the first time that I touch this writing machine.

She was not just a great mum, but also a great GURU to me and my 5 other siblings as well as to my uncles and aunties.

She died in peace at Putrajaya hospital in the arms of my brother Kamal, at 8am but was officially pronounced at 9.05am on the 29th July after the paramedic team was working hard to survive her.

My mother was no ordinary woman. She had gone through rough and tribulations of life with unmatched determination and fought uncomprehendingly to bring up all of us, and she did it all alone.

She was our single mother since she was 34 as we lost our father when I was just over 14 years of age.

The youngest of my sibling Kamarulzaman was born just 36 hours before his last breath in February 1966.

In between me and Kamarulzaman there are four others, Faridah, Hisham, Kamal and Fuad.

Six of us were brought up in a very pressing environment but my mother was all out working and toiling her sweat and tears in the paddy fields and small plot of rubber plantations that was left for her by my grandfather, Haji Kasim.

She was both the man and woman for the family living in a very remote village in Kuala Pilah and she heroically made sure that we were in school to match up with the basic needs of educations.

Until just hours before her death she was still giving me advice of a mother to a son and I cherished that moment exceedingly.

She reminded me not to forget my uncles and aunties as long as they are living, be alert and get united among siblings.

She also reminded me not to take the 5 daily prayers lightly as that differentiates between good human and other beings.

She said that she was happy to see her children grew up well and she was blessed with 33 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. Three of her six great-grandchildren are my grandsons.

Being a semi-literate lady she outclassed the mentality of those of her peers and age.

She used to tell me that going to a university was her ultimate for her children but what worried her was whether the children can think learnedly like a good graduate.

She often scolded us when we failed to think well and made proper decisions over simple issues despite spending long years in campus.

“Baca buku tebal-tebal tapi bodoh!” she yelled at me once and I never answered her word since I knew she was right.

I knew she reprimanded me because of her love for me. Other siblings too were not spared from her watchfulness.

To her, enrolling oneself into universities is to learn how to think straight and appropriate, while the scroll received on the graduation day was just to certify that you have undergone the training.

This kind of philosophical word by and large comes from a well-to-do, educated and well rounded up person and not from an old lady who was brought up in extraordinarily remote village who could meagerly read and write.

Time and space prohibit me to write longer than this, as I am in grieved of her demise.

What I am sure now is that there is nobody who is going to advise and scold me anymore.

All the 56 years having her as a mum, her scolding and advices made me strong and lively.

The more dressing-downs I had from her the more I loved her as she was straight and magnanimous to all her children and children-in-laws.

I am going to miss all those from now on. God have graced me immensely for having a mum that not everybody has.

“I promise not to stop praying for you mum. We know that you have loved us exceedingly and all your sacrifices made us all human!”

Preface

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